Lues maligna in an HIV-infected patient
| Autor: | Luiz Fernando Cabral Passoni, Sayonara Rocha Ribeiro, Érica Coutinho O. Sampaio, Jacqueline Anita de Menezes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Microbiology (medical) lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine lcsh:RC955-962 Cardiolipins Penicillins Lues maligna medicine.disease_cause Malignant syphilis Hiv infected medicine Humans Hepatitis B virus AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections business.industry Syphilis Cutaneous HIV infection medicine.disease Virology Penicillin Cholesterol Infectious Diseases VDRL titer Phosphatidylcholines Parasitology Syphilis Presentation (obstetrics) Skin lesion business Neurolues medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 38, Iss 2, Pp 181-184 (2005) |
| ISSN: | 0037-8682 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/s0037-86822005000200011 |
| Popis: | We report such a case of malignant syphilis in a 42-year-old HIV-infected man, co-infected with hepatitis B virus, who presented neurolues and the classical skin lesions of lues maligna. The serum VDRL titer, which was 1:64 at presentation, increased to 1:2,048 three months after successful therapy with penicillin, decreasing 15 months later to 1:8. |
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